Literacy, education and health development: Research priorities

Literacy, education and health development: research priorities.

How education and health are linked in developing countries and what educational activities produce change are quite uncertain. Questions for research on these concerns are noted, and it is suggested that prospective longitudinal studies, household surveys, and field observations might well be added to the more usual multivariate analyses of records. Analyses of educational program implementati...

Literacy, education and health development: annotated bibliography.

The focus of this bibliography is education’s effect on health status in developing countries. Some of the most relevant articles have been cited and annotated. The annotations are not summaries of the articles, but rather provide specific reference to the empirical evidence or, in some cases, lack of evidence for linking education with health status. The bibliography has been divided into four...

“Physical education”, “health and physical education”, “physical literacy” and “health literacy”: Global nomenclature confusion

The title “physical education” (PE) is the traditional taxonomy used to represent the education discipline. Health and physical education (HPE) is regarded to be an all-encompassing health-dimensional title that has been recently embraced by various education systems around the world. Hence, it can be argued that PE and HPE are often used interchangeably by educationalists, portraying a similar...

Setting priorities in health education and promotion.

Research priorities for arthritis professional education.

The need for improved educational programs in rheumatology is well recognized. In its 1976 Report to Congress (l), the National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases noted that only about 3% of individuals with arthritis were under the care of a rheumatologist. The overwhelming majority of arthritis patients received their care from primary care physicians, most of whom h...